Hey guys! I have an idea for a multi-chaptered work dependent mostly on strong characters and their relationships, using the name and some characters from an old, given-up-on story that I had of the same name.
I've gotten into horror recently and would like to incorporate an element of eerie or even supernatural horror into my complete rewrite.
The (very rough) plot basis would be of a girl finding a book/journal written by a dead woman that she may or may not have known, emphasizing mostly incoherent handwriting and a mess of words that seems boring and unreadable-the ramblings of a caged-up and bored mother. 600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWGCPtYGP3y
The girl reads on, and I introduce her life as a fairly good one with a good group of friends-all with distinct character that I'd take a long time to develop because, hey, I'm a sucker for getting to know every nook and cranny of a person in any story. 600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZUra0WCtX2
And then things would start to go weird and destructive, likely stemming from the book, but it would begin slowly and eerily, and the dramatic irony of it would be that the teens/young adults wouldn't really remember the book or give much thought into making connections with the creepy sh*t going on around them. 600Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ38GWtB7JK9
Sooner or later, they'd figure things out with the book and find that the story within the book changes, pages become blank or scratched out, or words become very large and frighteningly repeated for pages and pages to find them gone the next day. The soft-spoken and meandering diction of the journal descends into something malicious and harsh before ultimately threatening and going after the groups of kids themselves. That's when they decide that they've gotta figure this whole thing out.
They try writing in the book, tearing out pages, leaving it in a ditch or a river or a snowstorm or lake Michigan. It doesn't work, and when they abandon the book it is not the journal that follows them, but the handwriting popping up in odd places, taking over other novels or school assignments they have, in sidewalk chalk, printed onto newspapers. It seems inescapable and the work of something otherworldly.
That's about as much as I've got.
As for characters, I haven't written them up yet, sorry. But I do know that I want the journal to be a character in itself, comprised of not a being but of words and nothing but words. The antagonist's entire character is to be completely written out, and seemingly non-tangible.
It's gonna be hard to write and hard to chart out but I want to try.
Thoughts?
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